SCIENTIFIC FARMING
UNIVERSITIES ASKED TO MOVE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. Mr. M. McLeod, 8.A., in his presidential address to the District Educational Institute, said that a great agricultural education was fairly well established in the primary schools, but it would be of no real value until it was carried on through the secondary schools and through the University, nor would experimental farms he of much value until the farmers were better instructed in scientific methods of agriculture. This should be ranked in the universities with chemistry, physics, botany, mathematics or Latin. Thus, farming would ibe raised in the popular estimation among 'the professions, and the tide now flowing from the country to the towns would be checked. The university must take the first step, as its requirements were to fix the aims of the secondary schools. The meeting decided to send a remit to the Teachers' Conference that the university authorities he asked to make agriculture a subject for the B.A. and B.Sc. degrees.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 97, 10 September 1912, Page 5
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166SCIENTIFIC FARMING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 97, 10 September 1912, Page 5
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